Where They Go
When you run your app in Android Studio, it creates an APK to install on the device. That APK will wind up inside of the module’s build/
directory. build/
contains all sorts of outputs of the build process, the APK being chief among them:
Specifically, when you start off, you will find the APK in build/outputs/debug/app-debug.apk
. By default, the filename will be based on your Gradle module name, so an app/
module winds up with an APK with app
in the name. And, by default, you are creating a debug build — the sort of build that you as a developer will use — and so the APK winds up in a debug/
directory and has debug
in the name.
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